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24 <br /> Chapter 1: Current Conditions <br /> Fixed Route Services <br /> Hillsborough Circulator <br /> Shown in Figure 1-2, OPT operates an in-town bus service called the Hillsborough Circulator <br /> Bus which began service in June aoii. This free fixed route bus route serves several <br /> residential areas: the library, Orange County Courthouse, Social Services Center, Food Lion, <br /> UNC Family Practice, Durham Tech, UNC Hospital-Hillsborough Campus, Maxway <br /> Shopping Center, Walmart/Home Depot, and Triangle SportsPlex. The Circulator provides <br /> hourly service, Monday through Friday, from 8:oo a.m. to 5:00 p.m.5 Slightly modified from <br /> the original schedule and route, these times and stops went into effect on March 2, 2015. <br /> This route can be operated with a single small bus. Operation of this service is funded <br /> through the end of FY 2015 (and into the first quarter of FY 2o16) through a Congestion <br /> Mitigation and Air Quality Program Grant from NCDOT. Future funding is expected to <br /> come from public-transit dedicated vehicle registration fees which may be used to leverage <br /> Section 5307 operating funds. <br /> Orange-Chapel Hill Midday Connector <br /> The other current fixed route service in Orange County is a mid-day shuttle from <br /> Hillsborough to Chapel Hill, shown in Figure 1-3. This service is open to the general public. <br /> GOTriangle provides the Route 420 commuter service on this route as a peak hour, morning <br /> and evening, service. The Route 420 service is operated under contract for GoTriangle by <br /> Chapel Hill Transit (CHT). CHT continues to provide Route 420 service in 30-minute <br /> frequencies between 6:oo a.m. and 8:3o a.m. and 3:40 p.m. and 6:10 p.m. <br /> Previously, OPT operated a limited frequency mid-day service called the Hill-to-Hill Shuttle. <br /> On August 17, 2015, OPT implemented an increase in the mid-day service frequency and <br /> extended the route to Cedar Grove, north of Hillsborough in the non-urbanized portion of <br /> the county. This requires two buses on the route. OPT plans to transition the funding for the <br /> three daily service hours on this route to NCDOT State Maintenance Assistance Program <br /> (SMAP) funding if its application as an urban provider is accepted. The additional nine daily <br /> service hours will be supported with revenue from the 1/2-cent transit sales tax. <br /> It should be noted that OPT has plans for additional fixed route services and route deviation <br /> services to be implemented in October 2015. These are discussed in more detail in Chapter 4. <br /> 5 Hillsborough Circulator Bus brochure,available on the Town of Hillsborough Website, <br /> http://www.ci.hillsborough.nc.us/sites/default/files/circulator bus brochure.pdf. <br /> KFH <br /> NCDOT Orange County 8 <br /> Transit Assessment Study <br />